08 May, 2020

Published: 08 May 2020 19:05 BdSTUpdated: 09 May 2020 21:05 BdST

News in photos: May 08

Famous hotels in Dhaka are going without foreign tourists for days due to the coronavirus pandemic and the government-enforced shutdown. The hallways of these hotels are now remarkably dark and silent and the famed InterContinental in Dhaka cannot escape a smiliar fate. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Famous hotels in Dhaka are going without foreign tourists for days due to the coronavirus pandemic and the government-enforced shutdown. The hallways of these hotels are now remarkably dark and silent and the famed InterContinental in Dhaka cannot escape a smiliar fate. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

The police seized a number of rickshaws in Dhaka after their desperate pullers hit the street to earn livelihood after then government relaxed the coronavirus lockdown that has been going on for more than a month. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

The police seized a number of rickshaws in Dhaka after their desperate pullers hit the street to earn livelihood after then government relaxed the coronavirus lockdown that has been going on for more than a month. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

A rickshawpuller cleaning his three-wheeler after the police seized it amid the coronavirus lockdown in Dhaka. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

A rickshawpuller cleaning his three-wheeler after the police seized it amid the coronavirus lockdown in Dhaka. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove